# Report 2021-03

## News

 - [China’s ‘Sharp Eyes’ Program Aims to Surveil 100% of Public Space](https://onezero.medium.com/chinas-sharp-eyes-program-aims-to-surveil-100-of-public-space-ddc22d63e015?gi=sd)
 - [Google’s FLoC Is a Terrible Idea](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/googles-floc-terrible-idea)
 - [AdGuard names 6,000+ web trackers that use CNAME chicanery: Feel free to feed them into your browser's filter](https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/04/adguard_cname_tracker/)
 - [Thousands of Android and iOS Apps Leak Data From the Cloud](https://www.wired.com/story/ios-android-leaky-apps-cloud/)
 - [‘They track every move’: how US parole apps created digital prisoners](https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/mar/04/they-track-every-move-how-us-parole-apps-created-digital-prisoners)
 - [T-Mobile Automatically Opting Customers In to Expanded Data Collection Program for Targeted Ads](https://www.macrumors.com/2021/03/09/t-mobile-ad-targeting-data-collection/)
 - [Two UK Broadband ISPs Trial New Internet Snooping System](https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2021/03/two-uk-broadband-isps-trial-new-internet-snooping-system.html)
 - [Illegal data exchange between address publisher and credit ranking agency](https://noyb.eu/en/illegal-data-exchange-between-address-publisher-and-credit-ranking-agency)
 - [Popular travel apps are exposing sensitive data of millions of users](https://privacysavvy.com/news/research/popular-travel-apps-exposing-sensitive-data-of-millions-users/)
 - [Travelers entering Japan will have to install location confirmation app, Skype on smartphones](https://soranews24.com/2021/03/19/travelers-entering-japan-will-have-to-install-location-confirmation-app-skype-on-smartphones/)
 - [Mexican Banks Implement Mandatory Geolocation for Transactions](https://pulsenewsmexico.com/2021/03/24/mexican-banks-implement-mandatory-geolocation-for-transactions/)
 - [Big Tech, Big Cash: Washington’s New Power Players](https://www.citizen.org/article/big-tech-lobbying-update/)
 - [Reading news is not private: How news media websites help Big Tech to track you](https://pressgazette.co.uk/website-tracking-software/)
 - ['Missing from desk': AI webcam raises remote surveillance concerns](https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/mar/26/missing-from-desk-ai-webcam-raises-remote-surveillance-concerns)
 - [New 5G protocol vulnerabilities allow location tracking](https://therecord.media/new-5g-protocol-vulnerabilities-allow-location-tracking/)
 - [Intel accused of wiretapping because it uses analytics to track keystrokes, mouse movements on its website](https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/30/intel_wiretapping_data/)
 - [Wi-Fi devices set to become object sensors by 2024 under planned 802.11bf standard](https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/31/wifi_devices_monitoring/)

## Data Breaches

 - [European e-ticketing platform Ticketcounter extorted in data breach](https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/european-e-ticketing-platform-ticketcounter-extorted-in-data-breach/)
 - [Millions of Phone Numbers, Recordings, and Call Logs Compromised in Data Leak](https://www.wizcase.com/blog/ringostat-leak-research/)
 - [SITA data breach affects millions of travelers from major airlines](https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/sita-data-breach-affects-millions-of-travelers-from-major-airlines/)
 - [Data of 6.5 million Israeli citizens leaks online](https://therecord.media/data-of-6-5-million-israeli-citizens-leaks-online/)
 - [MobiKwik Suffers Major Breach - KYC Data of 3.5 Million Users Exposed](https://thehackernews.com/2021/03/mobikwik-suffers-major-breach-kyc-data.html)
 - [Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic”](https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/03/whistleblower-ubiquiti-breach-catastrophic/)

## Paper/Report

 - [Targeted OnlineAn industry broken by design and by default](https://edri.org/our-work/surveillance-based-advertising-an-industry-broken-by-design-and-by-default/)
 - [Prime+Probe 1, JavaScript 0: Overcoming Browser-based Side-Channel Defenses](https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.04952)
 - [TikTok vs Douyin A Security and Privacy Analysis](https://citizenlab.ca/2021/03/tiktok-vs-douyin-security-privacy-analysis/)
 - [Mobile Handset Privacy: Measuring The Data iOS and Android Send to Apple And Google](https://www.scss.tcd.ie/doug.leith/apple_google.pdf)
 - [IEEE 802.11bf: Toward Ubiquitous Wi-Fi Sensing](https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.14918)
